03/29/2024
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1789 – US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution.

1789 – US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court.

1789 – US Attorney General Office is created.

1890 – President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned.

1903 – Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle.

1924 – Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport.

1929 – Lt. James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight.

1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.

1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1954 – Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)

1964 – “Munsters” premieres on TV.

1968 – “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS-TV.

1975 – OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues.

1976 – “Oh! Calcutta!” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances.

1979 – CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service.

1982 – Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26.

1985 – Apollo Computer, Inc. lays off 300 employees.

1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

2001 – Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand.

2015 – Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.

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